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About Us

For 90 years, McGinnis Lochridge has served to protect the interests of our clients in continuously changing landscapes including cutting-edge technology, oil and gas litigation, regulatory matters and more. The quality of our work is reflected in our clients’ long-lasting loyalty and in our top-tier external rankings.

Manuel Escobar counsels private companies and individuals across multiple industries, working closely on transactional matters with business owners and senior management. He assists clients with business formation and ownership from entity selection to dissolution, as well in as a broad range of other transactional matters for both for-profit and nonprofit entities, including ownership structure, drafting formation and operating documents, and advising on corporate governance. Manuel has helped a variety of businesses and individuals form, wind down, and buy and sell businesses across Texas.

Manuel's securities law practice includes working with private placement transactions involving small and medium-sized companies, including review and qualification for state and federal securities exemptions as well as drafting offering memorandums and related subscription documents. Manuel has also assisted clients with numerous real estate transactions. His experience includes drafting contracts, deeds, deed covenants and restrictions, and easement agreements as well as reviewing and negotiating small and large commercial leases.

Manuel has worked with clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs and small business owners to oil and gas companies and operators, cooperative associations, hospitals and healthcare providers, real estate developers, property managers, landlords, restaurant owners, doctors, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverage manufacturers, and more.

Manuel has experience counseling clients across a wide range of corporate and business transactions. His experience includes:

Assisting with the formation and dissolution of business entities, both for-profit and nonprofit, including entity selection, ownership structure, drafting governance documents and advising on corporate governance.

Assisting with conversions and mergers of business entities for nonprofit status.

Assisting with conversions and mergers of qualifying entities for nonprofit status.

Resolving entity filing errors and failures to register. Purchasing and selling businesses of various sizes.

Practice Areas

Corporate & Business Transactions

McGinnis Lochridge attorneys counsel clients on corporate organization and assist with the formation of business entities, as well as capitalization with stocks, bonds and securities. We handle financing, stock placement and acquisition financing, as well as…

Real Estate

The attorneys in our Real Estate Practice Group represent clients in connection with major commercial and mixed use retail developments, as well as residential and industrial properties. Our clients include buyers, sellers, developers and lenders.

Labor & Employment

Managing your workforce is a complex and ever-changing challenge, and our Employment Law Practice Group can guide you through it all. McGinnis Lochridge lawyers provide legal representation and counsel to employers of all sizes, both…

Privacy and Data Security

The protection of sensitive electronic data is an increasingly vital issue and source of risk for businesses across a wide spectrum of industries. Whether the data includes protected health information, sensitive personal information, financial information,…

Securities

McGinnis Lochridge attorneys are experienced assisting clients in all aspects of securities law, transactions, and compliance. They regularly handle a variety of public and private securities matters, representing issuers, underwriters, shareholders, and investors.

Electric Energy

For more than 30 years, our attorneys have been involved in the development and restructuring of electric markets in Texas. We provide counsel and guidance to wholesale and retail market participants in the Electric Reliability…